On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 04:22:19PM +0100, Michael Everson wrote: > On 19 Aug 2011, at 16:04, Mark E. Shoulson wrote: > > >> I didn't say that applications or rendering engines are able to accept > >> your overridden properties and apply them, right out of the box, at > >> least not today. > > > > But they work Just Great for LTR scripts in the PUA, but not for RTL > > scripts. Isn't that kind of bias counter to the whole point of the PUA and > > Unicode in general? > > Good point. > > > And it isn't only due to implementors, either: Unicode specifies LTR > > directionality for the PUA (which is where we came into this discussion in > > the first place.) Aren't we supposed to do something about that? > > I agree. How much RTL PUA space do you think there should be, Mark?
Just a question: How far is the "Supplementary PUA Area-A" (aka Plane 15) and "Supplementary PUA Area-B" (aka Plane 16) really used today? Would it be possible to change the properties of some part of these planes to RTL or is this "really impossible"? P.T. -- Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek> Jabber: [email protected] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ EA 355:001 DU DU DU DU EA 355:002 TU TU TU TU EA 355:003 NU NU NU NU NU NU NU EA 355:004 NA NA NA NA NA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
